Egypt
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- Exhibition: Gianadda Presents Egyptian Offerings
Tribune de Geneve Ancient artwork gathered at Martigny’s Gianadda Foundation reflects the complex relationships maintained between men and their deities thousands of years ago. Offrandes aux Dieux d’Egypte (Offerings to the Egyptian Gods), the latest...
- Exhibition: More Re Gifts From The Gods
WCBSTV In harmony with their gods. Ancient Egyptians were true believers, creating statuaries of gold and bronze fit for the temples of nobles and royals. Experts like Curator Marsha Hill are still trying to understand and unlock the mysteries surrounding...
- New Book: Gifts For The Gods
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released a new book to accompany its Gift for the Gods exhibtion on metalwork in ancient Egypt, about which I posted yesterday: Edited by Marsha Hill and Deborah Schorsch. Published in conjunction...
- Exhibition: Gifts For The Gods (metalwork)
New York Times (Karen Rosenberg) If you are asked for a username and password enter egyptnews in both fields. In ancient Egypt, stone sculpture was the stuff of intimidation: regal, public, unyielding. A stone statue could be smashed, but it could never...
- Tutankhamun's Childhood Home Exhibited At Penn Museum
Huliq Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun, the University of Pennsylvania Museum's popular new exhibition about the city of Amarna, Tutankhamun's childhood home, will remain open as a long-term exhibition, adding to the Museum's...
Egypt
Exhibition: Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples
Huliq.com (Ruzik Tuzik)
Overview of a new exhibition, which is due to open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in October, and looks like an absolute cracker, focusing on the importance of metal working (running from October 16, 2007–February 18, 2008):
Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 16, 2007, Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples is the first exhibition ever devoted to these fascinating yet enigmatic works. On view will be some 70 superb statues and statuettes created in precious metals and copper alloys including bronze (an alloy of copper and tin) over more than two millennia.
Through their long history, the ancient Egyptians used copper, bronze, gold, and silver to create lustrous, graceful statuary for their interactions with their gods – from ritual dramas in the temples and chapels that dotted the landscape to festival processions through the towns and countryside that were thronged by believers. The exhibition will bring to New York masterpieces from around the world, including seven extremely rare inlaid and decorated large bronzes from the first half of the first millennium, the so-called Third Intermediate Period (1070 – 664 B.C.), the apogee of Egyptian metalwork. Among these will be the astonishing bronze statue of the priestess and noblewoman Takushit, the treasure of the Egyptian Collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Measuring some 27 inches (70 cm) in height and covered with a luminous latticework of divine figures and imagery in precious metal, this work has never before left Greece.
- Exhibition: Gianadda Presents Egyptian Offerings
Tribune de Geneve Ancient artwork gathered at Martigny’s Gianadda Foundation reflects the complex relationships maintained between men and their deities thousands of years ago. Offrandes aux Dieux d’Egypte (Offerings to the Egyptian Gods), the latest...
- Exhibition: More Re Gifts From The Gods
WCBSTV In harmony with their gods. Ancient Egyptians were true believers, creating statuaries of gold and bronze fit for the temples of nobles and royals. Experts like Curator Marsha Hill are still trying to understand and unlock the mysteries surrounding...
- New Book: Gifts For The Gods
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released a new book to accompany its Gift for the Gods exhibtion on metalwork in ancient Egypt, about which I posted yesterday: Edited by Marsha Hill and Deborah Schorsch. Published in conjunction...
- Exhibition: Gifts For The Gods (metalwork)
New York Times (Karen Rosenberg) If you are asked for a username and password enter egyptnews in both fields. In ancient Egypt, stone sculpture was the stuff of intimidation: regal, public, unyielding. A stone statue could be smashed, but it could never...
- Tutankhamun's Childhood Home Exhibited At Penn Museum
Huliq Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun, the University of Pennsylvania Museum's popular new exhibition about the city of Amarna, Tutankhamun's childhood home, will remain open as a long-term exhibition, adding to the Museum's...